Week 3 summary:Job Interview video and Charles Dickens questions.

 

Job interview

 

For this week we worked in teams (in my case Thelma and Jose) our idea was of a man with an automotive engineering major, searching for a job in a marketing company. Out teacher gave us a lot of ideas for the background for our principal character.

 

I was very stressed in filming the video because I think that it will took us at least one hour to make it, but to my surprise we made in 30 minutes with only two takes. My role in the video, as you can see on the link below, is of the former engineer.

 

Here is a link to see the video on YouTube.

 



Charles Dickens

 

We were instructed in answering 15 questions of Dickens, mostly about his life and the inspiration for his books. The activity was made in teams of two so I paired up with Jimena, we divided the questions so we could finish it faster.

 

I find it interesting the way Charles Dickens experiences affected his way of writing the "quarrel with America" is an example of this. He didn't liked hipocresy, corrupted governments and child labor was an aspect of his country. It is sad that things are still like that today.

Summary: Week 1 and 2

Week 1:
In the first week, we saw the contents of the course and worked creating an essay of two hundred words about a topic of our election ita finished with a homework of reading the two introductions of one of the books of the course and making an essay of a list of topics and a presentation of it for week 2.

Week 2:
We had a quiz of the introductions of the book, on the second sesión we had to deliver the essay and make the presentation of the topic. I was very nervous at first because in my other classes my presentations are in my spanish so it was very difficult to perform it. When I finished my presentation I realized that it is the same as making a presentation in spanish but I need to practice more my choice of words.

- Overall it was a very balanced weekend.